News

• 2012-04 I recently was contacted by Lynn Urry, a member of the Chicago Midway Labs. He send me a copy of a 1966 article by Jim Lamport which I posted on this site.
• 2011-12 John Grunsfeld appointed to head NASA Science Directorate
• 2011-12 Roger "Gabe" Gabriel dies on Dec 5, 2011
• 2011-05 Don Sturges dies May 27, 2011
• 2011-04 John Grunsfeld's father dies at 81.
• 2011-03 Bruce Winstein dies February 28, 2011. See also here.
• 2011-02 Tom Economou is in the news, re: Stardust to visit comet Tempel1
• 2011-01 Coleman McCormick passed away on January 28, 2011 in Chicago.
• 2010-10 A Celebration of the Life of Simon Swordy took place on November 18-19 on the campus of the University of Chicago.
• 2010-07 Simon Swordy dies July 19, 2010. He was 56.
• 2010-04 John Grunsfeld was featured in MIT's Technology Review.
• 2010-03 Rémi Jacquet dies April 24, 2010. He was 86.
  • Obituary and Guest Book- Chicago Tribume
• 2010-01Astronaut John Grunsfeld Appointed STScI Deputy Director.

• 2003-2009 Past News

The Early Days

• The Cosmic Ray Group in EFI - TBD
• The Chicago Midway Labs Story - From an old booklet scanned by Warren P. Harvey
• 1964 - LASR is dedicated by James Web - TBD
• CML/LASR Recollections - Sent in by alumni
• Meyer's Flyers - TBD

Directories

• LASR Alumni List - Help me complete it
• LASR Faculty, Staff and Graduate Students - Very outdated (2000)
• University of Chicago Engineering Center (UCEC) - Skip's creation
• Department of Physics - Faculty, graduate students, ...
• Enrico Fermi Institute (EFI)

Pictures

• Midway Labs Mug Shots - 1960s
• LASR 1983 staff photo - With legend
• LASR 2004 staff photo - Only 8 or so of the original staff are left
• The LASR Memorabilia Collection - More documents and pictures sent in by alumni
  • With pictures of Yvette McLean courtesy of Judy Kroeger

Wanted

• Old LASR phone books - 1970s and 1980s
• Other group pictures (scan at 200 dpi and save as jpg)
• Your story - Send it and I will post it - sort of like your own website

Recently Departed

• Roger "Gabe" Gabriel - (1929-2011)
• Don Sturges (1930-2011)
• Coleman McCormick - (-2011)
• Simon Swordy (1954-2010)
  • University of Chicago - July 21, 2010
  • Chicago Tribume - July 25, 2010
  • The Guardian, UK - September 20, 2010
  • Guestbook - Leave comments and memories
  • Celebration of the Life of Simon Swordy -November 19-20, 2010
  • SwordyTunes.org - A website created by Simon
• Warren Harvey (1925-2009)
• John Stepney Sr. (1926-2009)
• Chang-Yun (Charlie) Fan (1918-2009)
• Tony Tuzzolino (1931-2008)
• Frank C. Jones (1932-2007)
• Marcia Cambric (1939-2007)
• John Cole (1932-2005)
• Ed Blume (1916-2005)
• Frank DiDonna (1956-2004)
• Moises Garcia Munoz (1922-2004)
• Yvette McLean (1948-2003)
• Pioneer-10 (1972-2003)
• Florenzel Ellis (1915-2002)
• Ken Yates (1924-2002)
• Gordon Lentz (1929-2002)
• Anthony Turkevich (1916-2002)
• Peter Meyer (1920-2002)
  • Chicago Sun-Times - March 11, 2002
  • University of Chicago Chronicle - April 11, 2002
  • Biographical Memoir - National Academy of Sciences by Eugene Parker
• John Simpson (1916-2000)
  • Chicago Tribune - September 2, 2000
  • New-York Times - September 7, 2000
  • Students of John Simpson - With theses
  • Biographical Memoir - National Academy of Sciences by Eugene Parker
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekar (1910-1995)
• George Vrabel (1909-1993)

Links

• Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Department of Physics
• Laboratory for Astrophysics and Space Research (LASR)
• Enrico Fermi Institute (EFI)
  • University of Chicago Engineering Center (UCEC

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